An exploration of density and perception using color, material and spatial shifts.

Marta Johansen creates stunning black & white, repetitive-line drawings of abstract shapes and their resultant negative space. For this installation Marta is pushing the envelope of her typical artistic practice to bring her interests into new territory. She will be experimenting in-situ with unique materials, presenting three-dimensional drawing surfaces within the gallery. The exercise will call into question and reshape the methods with which she normally works. In so doing, the site-specific drawings will stimulate and inspire the viewing experience.

Artist Amy Tavern will be in residence at Ramon’s Tailor for six weeks, transcribing her time here by way of daily walks and drawing.

Each morning Amy will walk in the Tenderloin as well as adjacent neighborhoods like Nob Hill and the Fillmore. After each excursion, she will translate the memory of her paths and what she sees and feels through drawing. Over the course of her residency, she plans to walk every surrounding street and create a large-scale drawing that fills our main exhibit space. The project’s title, Point Three Five, is a reference to the approximate size of the Tenderloin in square miles.

An artist’s sketchbook and mind will unfurl across the walls of the W.C. in an evolving creation over the next few weeks. Meander Line is the work of artist and designer Lisa Ekström. We’re long-time fans of her whimsical and abstract illustrations and exquisite hand lettering. Come experience where her lines will take you.

The Postal Collage Project is part art project, part social experiment. We’re proud to host it for a sixth time. This year, collaborators from twelve countries produced nearly one hundred collages over the course of six months. Assembled in working groups of five members each, with each group arranged in a ‘circular’ sequence, participants send and receive works-in-progress by mail. Each participant is the principal author of one collage, and a contributing author of four others. Each collaborator eventually finishes the collage they started. This unique project is the creative undertaking of Berkeley-based artist Marty McCutcheon.

Ramon’s Tailor is a space for showing alternative projects, like this one, that celebrate collaboration and engage diverse groups of people from all over the world. We’re excited to share this project with you.

Artist Tanja Geis will be in residence at Ramon’s Tailor collecting lost and discarded objects from nearby Tenderloin streets. She will be using what she finds to make a series of collagraphs—prints made from a plate collaged with different textures. This work will be produced in conjunction with Kala Art Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Program.

The intention of Sidewalk Collagraphs is to be present with that which we are usually indifferent to if not repulsed by. The project is guided by a hunch that in attending to and formally reimagining the discarded, the lost, and the residual of city life, the artist might offer some intimacy with and perhaps understanding of the ecology of the neighborhood.

The Rhinoceros Project, a collaborative project of artists Anne Beck and Michelle Wilson, will be in residence at Ramon’s Tailor. The artists invite you to participate in their ongoing sewing circles to re-create Albrecht Durer’s woodblock The Rhinoceros, stitch by stitch, as a gigantic watermark.

Sewing circles, will take place during open hours, and will feature rhinoceros-related movie screenings and group discussions on extinction, poaching, ecological value and how a community can affect change. Viewers can also participate in print and paper days, and peruse the Rhinoceros Reading Room.

Ever wondered what happens to the money raised by all the pink-ribboned merchandise? On the heels of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pinkwashing, created by Nikki Gunn, is part art activism and part tribute to her aunt and others who have lost their lives to metastatic cancer. Come experience our all-pink micro gallery and learn some surprising truths.

Chambers is an exploration by Dana Harel into her concerns about human fragility, love, and perseverance—physically and psychologically—amidst the seemingly perpetual state of conflict, destruction, growth, and construction all around us. This exhibition offers a uniquely intimate glimpse at the artist’s new two-dimensional landscape and figurative works, presented together with her deeply personal and rarely seen slip-cast plaster sculptures. In her forms which recall antiquities, crumbling architectural elements, and human organs, we find echoes of the past and haunting allusions to the future. Despite a naive approach to process and the suggestion of ruin, a unique strength of Dana’s art rests in its deceptive sophistication, and in her ultimate hopefulness. Through her work, we are invited to contemplate our own fragility, capacity for love, and in the intimacy of a small gallery in the heart of San Francisco, what might we build and rebuild anew…

Dates: August – September 2016Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 24 from 6:00 to 9:00pmFirst Thursday Art Walks: September 1 from 6:00 to 10:00pmOpen Hours: To be announced; or email for appointmentAt Ramon’s Tailor

Curious about the elevation level of our W.C.? Artists Kristina Larsen and Sebastian Martin ask you to take a seat, and imagine the world stretching out in all directions. A line representing the location of the horizon, if it was visible from the vantage point of the toilet, is marked on the wall encircling this micro gallery. Come participate by tracking your own meaningful life events within the instrument they have created.

These Are That presents objects and images that have been arranged into “piles” of information to create a relationship between part and whole. Each individual part has a specific identity, but the definition of the total work depends on a cumulative assessment—both in the works themselves, and also the installation as a whole.

Rope, jute, paper, sawdust, ink and polyester resin are the elemental building blocks for three sculptures installed at Ramon’s Tailor.

About the Artist:Daniel Brickman is a Bay Area artist who is driven by material experimentation and the cyclical nature of matter and time. He’s interested in communicating ideas that arise through the process of making. He holds a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a MFA from the University of California, Davis.